My previous post on Friedrich Glauser’s Sergeant Studer was mostly dedicated to exploring traits that I feel Sergeant Studer shares with Karin Fossum’s Inspector Sejer, my assessment being based solely on my reading of In Matto’s Realm, the second book in Glauser’s Swiss detective series.
From comments about Sergeant Studer on the … [Read more...]

Sergeant Studer: Part One
In Matto’s Realm, by Swiss writer Friedrich Glauser, caught me up so thoroughly that I’d have read it in one sitting if I hadn’t begun reading so late in the evening; as it was, I stayed up past midnight, and then woke to read the last three chapters in bed before breakfast.
The story begins with an escaped … [Read more...]

Friedrich Glauser's Sergeant Studer
As Friedrich Glauser points out in the foreword to his novel, In Matto’s Realm, “A story has to take place somewhere. Mine takes place in the Canton of Bern, in a lunatic asylum.”
And from what I’ve recently read about Glauser’s familiarity with the insides of ‘lunatic asylums’ in Switzerland (pre … [Read more...]